How to Use itinerant in a Sentence

itinerant

adjective
  • First came the purge that itinerant young adults know all too well.
    — Peter Rubin, Longreads, 23 Sep. 2022
  • For the rest of her days, Wells lived the life of an itinerant activist.
    — Faron Levesque, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 May 2024
  • After high school, Karen lived an itinerant life, city to city, man to man.
    — Brandon Sneed, Outside Online, 4 Apr. 2016
  • This itinerant way of life means that many of us can’t burden ourselves down with too much stuff.
    — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2021
  • Just enough time, Drieghe adds, laughing, for the itinerant pair to move again.
    — Asad Syrkett, Curbed, 18 June 2018
  • In the shabby hotel room, an itinerant preacher has come to the end of the road.
    — Cynthia Zarin, The New Yorker, 22 May 2017
  • Fern rebuilds an itinerant life from the ashes of that loss and the death of her husband.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 20 Feb. 2021
  • As itinerant artists, the painters worked quickly in order to make a living.
    — Lyndi McNulty, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 15 Aug. 2021
  • Bethany Collins’s early career as an artist was an itinerant one.
    — Harper's BAZAAR, 12 Dec. 2022
  • Binance has since been itinerant.
    — Ben Weiss, Fortune, 8 Dec. 2025
  • This bag is either an itinerant chef’s dream, or simply the well thought out kit of a serial-killer.
    — Charlie Sorrel, WIRED, 16 Sep. 2009
  • Many of them are itinerant, moving their colonies around the country on lorries in search of pollen and nectar.
    — The Economist, 8 Apr. 2020
  • But Pham’s profession and itinerant past have also taught him to adapt.
    — New York Times, 24 Sep. 2021
  • Clements, who was born in Seattle, grew up the child of itinerant parents who worked blue-collar jobs.
    — Annie Gowen, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Sep. 2022
  • The itinerant homeless man was believed to have disappeared at the same time as the little girl.
    — Fox News, 19 Feb. 2020
  • Of course, some professions are itinerant by nature.
    — Bill Gurley, Fortune, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Since then, the United States Grand Prix has had an itinerant feel.
    — New York Times, 14 July 2022
  • Many of them are itinerant, moving from cloud seeding in one town in the summer to another in the winter.
    — Doug Struck, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Aug. 2021
  • More crops have cut the number of young men seeking itinerant employment in the cities during the dry season.
    — The Economist, 12 July 2018
  • He was born in 1930 to a father who was an itinerant salesman and a mother who ran a small store.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 21 May 2025
  • The book’s hero spends decades wrestling with the teachings of his father, who, like Upp, became an itinerant preacher.
    — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2018
  • They were sold to pombeiros—itinerant traders—and taken by canoe or marched to the coast from as far as 250 miles inland.
    — James Oakes, The New York Review of Books, 23 Mar. 2021
  • The Fire have been something of an itinerant franchise for much of their nearly three-decade history.
    — Robert Channick, Chicago Tribune, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Now 36, the itinerant striker has played for 17 club sides on three continents.
    — Asif Burhan, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Indeed, expect to see her continue work as an itinerant blender and consultant.
    — David Thomas Tao, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
  • Dante spent the last nineteen years of his working life as an itinerant diplomat and secretary for the lords of northern Italy.
    — Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2021
  • The song was born of Martin’s deep experience of the life of an itinerant musician.
    — Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 17 Oct. 2025
  • In that moment, both Jesus and the role of an itinerant evangelist — changing the world one life at a time — captured his heart.
    — Cathy Lynn Grossman, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2018
  • Nor is Liam, an itinerant drifter who juggles whatever trade is on offer but perhaps hasn’t nailed down any single one of them.
    — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 18 June 2026
  • Sirat centers on a father and son joining a group of itinerant ravers in the deserts of Morocco in search for one last party.
    — Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 24 May 2025

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